Jashayla Markayia Hopson kidnapped from her Kemper County school Tuesday. She was found alive Wednesday after being dumped in a rural part of Lauderdale County.

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Ruth Ingram

A 6-year-old kindergartener kidnapped Tuesday from her Kemper County school library was apparently dumped alive on the side of a rural Lauderdale County road at about 2 p.m. today, Mississippi Highway Patrol officials say.

Jashayla Markayia Hopson appears to have walked to a nearby home on rural Burrage Road in Enterprise, and "people who reside in the house alerted the authorities," said MHP spokesman Warren Strain.

The little girl was abducted at about 1 p.m. Tuesday by an adult female not authorized to check her out, Strain said. The woman walked into the school library, called Jashayla ...